You still have cell phones and PDAs to worry about - using too many of those nice features might mean you bust the view for others. Besides, with Microsoft being the corporate giant they are, do you really believe they will throw in the towel to a team of open source developers?
Bill Gates would roll over in his grave.
Taco Fleur wrote:
*****************************************************----------------- Unfortunately, while we do vaguely know what *most* of the users use right now, we don't know at any point, for any particular site, what those *specific* users are browsing with, and what they will be browsing with in the future. -----------------
Is it really still vague? If we keep thinking like this, will we ever get a standard?
I realize years ago, it was crazy to say, "hey I will only code for Browser X", because there was such a variety used out there. But lately it has been quite obvious what the USERS are using (and once again let me stress out that that does not mean I agree with what they are using) the two browsers at the top are Internet Explorer and Mozilla, with Internet Explorer Leading. Cool, time to say bye bye to EVERY other browser that is not within this range, i.e. the ones that only have a share of 5% or less percent. Let the top two battle it out, i.e. let's see who the users will choose in the next two years, after that, bye bye number 2. One browser left, and we can all code for one browser (or engine/parser if they wised up and used the same backend but different front-end) and we can all finally start using those fancy features that we have stayed away from because they don't work in every browser.
;-))
Taco
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